After more than 32 years serving up eclectic, globally inspired comfort food on Greenfield Road, Sweet Lorraine's Cafe & Bar in Southfield will serve the last order of its beloved mac 'n' cheese on June 25.

Chef Lorraine Platman and her husband/business partner Gary Sussman made the announcement Thursday in a press release.

“It’s been a labor of love,” Platman said in the release. “Dealing with the challenges of my health issues has made it increasingly impractical to continue operations at the pace that is required to continue to be successful.”

The physically demanding work of running a restaurant is no longer sustainable for the chef, who opened the Southfield location of her self-described "World Beat" restaurant in November of 1984. The restaurant garnered numerous awards and accolades over the past three decades and became a fixture in the metro Detroit dining scene.

Platman opened the first Sweet Lorraine's Cafe and Bar in a small Madison Heights space in 1982 and the art-filled, two-story Southfield location followed two years later. An Ann Arbor location debuted in 1993 before it moved to the Livonia Marriott Laurel Park Place, where it continues to operate. The original Madison Heights location closed in 2003, leaving the restaurant on Greenfield Road just north of 12 Mile as the flagship.

Reached by phone, Sussman said the Southfield location took up most of Platman's time and attention, taking a physical toll over the years.

"It's a big restaurant to operate and it doesn't get any smaller," he said. "She can't be quite as hands-on. She really loves cooking, but she can't do as much cooking."

Sussman said the Livonia location, with a kitchen led by chef de cuisine Pawel Ochnicki for the past 17 years, will stay open. A new concept, Sweet Lorraine's GameTime Grill, is also set to open inside the On the Dunes Sports facility in Commerce Township later this summer.

"We've got some talented people that can back her up in places," Sussman said.

Platman and Sussman opened a number of fast-casual and counter-service spin-off restaurants dishing up Sweet Lorraine's famous mac 'n' cheese around metro Detroit over the past few years, but Sussman said they've been slowly selling off their interests to franchisees and partners.